Batman/Superman Annual #2Review

Greg Pak has taken Batman and Superman to a lot of strange places during his run. Throughout these adventures, Pak has explored the friendship and sometimes rivalry of the two characters in fun and insightful ways. In Batman/Superman Annual #2, Pak shifts this exploration of these characters in an interesting way. Unfortunately, he only goes so far with this exploration as the issue gets hung up on overused villains instead.

Without getting into spoilers, Superman is forced to maintain his Clark Kent persona throughout this issue which leads to a deadly adventure for our hero. This is the source of most of the fun to be found in this issue, as Batman has a blast treating Clark as nothing more than mild-mannered reporter. Unfortunately, this doesn’t amount to much as the majority of the issue’s focus lies with some severely overused Batman villains. While there is one major exception to this, she’s completely underutilized here. That said, it is fun to see Clark stand on his own, and the cliffhanger does provide a bit of intrigue if only in that it’ll be interesting to see how Pak resolve it in a post-Convergence DCU.

Tom Derenick, Tyler Kirkham, Ian Churchill, Adrian Syaf, Emanuela Lupacchino all contribute to the art here. For the most part, the art stays surprisingly consistent for the most part considering how many artists are on board here. Some pages do lack some polish though which does take away from the overall product.

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Batman/Superman Annual #2 has a good premise, but fails to thrill with a cast of overused villains.